Library
& Information Science, Course 262: Resources for Young
Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher
Fall2001
w9 culture.html
with thanks to:
Doug Acterman, Dan Faurot-Daniels, and Paul Sampleman
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Artnet.com
Internet portal to the art world,
including galleries, auctions, printstore and bookstore.
Art
Institute of Chicago.
Beautiful website, heavy on graphics so
can be slow to load.
Art
Museum Network
Find an art museum in many parts of the
world and visit many virtually. Includes a link to the Art Museum
Image Consortium (AMICO) which has a thumbnail catalog of over 50,000
works of art.
The
WebMuseum
The WebMuseum is hosted by a number of
institutions all over the world and contains catalogs and pictures of
various works online.
Metropolitan
Museum
You can't resist visiting the
Metropolitan Museum in New York City. and its section on
education.
which offers a variety of educational experiences with images of
works of art and detailed descriptions of educational opportunities
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Groves
Dictionary of Art
The ultimate art dictionary
http://www.grovereference.com/TDA/
Museums around the world: An extensive list of links to locate and visit museums online from around the world. Includes 879 museums from the United States and museums from 79 other countries. From the Oxford University Computing Laboratory Archive.
MUSÉE
A not-for-profit organization which works with cultural institutions
around the world to provide services to museums, schools, and the
general public. MUSÉE's mission is to enhance cultural
awareness, advance education at all levels, and stimulate public
interest in cultural institutions. Homepage spotlights a Museum of
the Day.
Smithsonian
Institution.
Beautifully designed homepage for the Smithsonian, very easy to
navigate.
Children's Museum
of Indianapolis.
Proclaims to be "America's largest builder of small discoveries"
CultureFinder
California Museum Listing
California museums listed by location. Not an exhaustive list, but
convenient.
Newcity.Com
Online links to alternative america.
The
Great YA Services Tour
nnovative library programs for young adults, from YALSA. Brief
descriptions of a wide range of innovative programs.
Culture Kiosque
Great links to opera, art, jazz, and dance sites. Try it.
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Did you know?
The top accessed music sites on the Internet are (summer, 2000 in order of popularity):real.com - specializes in streaming technology - 11.68 million hits, April, 2000
broadcast.com - 3.49 million hits, April, 2000
mtv.com
mp3.com
napster.com
sonicnet.com
launch.com
rollingstone.com
winamp.com
vh1.com
Popular Music
Pop Music Articles (w9a)
Yahoo
Magazine's Music on the Net
Index and 1998 Online Music Awards in many categories. Zillions of
links to tune in.
MTV
A good online source for news, groups, awards, etc.
Rolling Stone
Magazine
Has the scoop on much in the music industry.
AMG Music
Styles is particularly good for R&B fans. It includes subgenres
such as country-soul, Motown, Philly soul, funk, and Northern soul.
Contains a massive database of biographies and discographies.
Bing's Old
Skool Music Link Web Site
A site that is more historic for old-school funk, soul, and disco. A
good place to learn the roots of the current R&B scene.
Country Music
Try Country.com as a first choice for all types of information about the genre.
For lyrics to many songs and chords for some classic songs plus other stuff, try The Roughstock Network.
Classical Music
Classical Net
Dave Lampson's Classical Net is for both the novice and the longtime
classical music fan. "The site offers the basic classical repertoire,
a CD-buying guide and CD recommendations, a composer database, and a
Reading Room that features a list of suggested books." (according to
Yahoo Magazine)
CDNow
CDNow's Classical Insites offers a thorough Conservatory section that
explains classical-music periods and genres in nontechnical language.
There are also in-depth studies of key classical pieces, real-time
chate, cybercasts, and message boards (according to Yahoo
Magazine)
Classical's
101 Best
Let an expert quide you.
Jazz
The Red Hot Jazz
Archive
The Red Hot Jazz Archive is a music historian's paradise devoted to
jazz of the pre-sing era. Biographies, discographies, and thoughtful
essays of figures such as Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton, and King Oliver
(recommended by Yahoo Magazine)
Jenny's
Jazz
Great links and you get to add your own list of favorites.
Jazz Portal
Jazz portal created by jazz buff.
General Music Resources
Music
resources
Great links for all types of music.
Independent Classical and Jazz Label You know about CDnow and the other biggies, now try an indie label.
Encyclopedia
of Musical Instruments:
Music Heritage Network's page on the history and development of
musical instruments from around the world.
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Organizations
American Film
Institute :
The professional organization that eats, drinks and breathes
movies.
http://www.afionline.org/home.html
Independent Film
Project
Welcome to the indies- if you need it, they got it.
http://www.ifp.org/docs.cfm
The Oscars
Guess who? "They love me. They really love me!"
http://www.oscar.com/
National Film
Registry
Preserved films by the Library of Congress. The LOC picks 25 films
every years to preserve for all time. You too can vote which ones get
chosen.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/
Sales and Databases
Videoflicks
Sales and database
http://www.videoflicks.com/index.htm
Amazon.com
Sales and database.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/video.html/002-7607109-8277029
GO
Entertainment
Database AND movie times across the nation
http://entertainment.go.com/Movies/
Internet Movie
Database
Perhaps the best movie database online
http://us.imdb.com/search.html
All Movie
Database
Database
http://ALLMOVIE.com/
The Cinema
Connection
Database
http://www.socialchange.net.au/TCC/index.html
REEL
A good place to find new, used, and rare movies for sale.
Documentary Films
Great collection of documentary movies.
Movie Reviews
New York Times Movie
Reviews
All the reviews that are fit to print. Their new book, The Best
1000 Movies of All Time just came out.
http://www.nytimes.com/
Youth
must be served!
For a good review of teen movies, so popular in Spring, 99 plus a
good list of teen movies from past decades, see the news
article(w9f.html)
American Film
Institute
The Top 100 Greatest American Movies were announced on the CBS-TV
special in June, 1999, but the celebration of the first century of
American moviemaking continues! Visit this site for the list of
100 greatest American films from AFI.
See CNN Showbiz Movies for current movies.
News
Mr. Showbiz: Mr. Showbiz - a site linking to the latest in Hollywood films and other entertainment features.
Film Books
Guides- Updated every year.
Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide by Leonard Maltin. Signet Press. The most complete guide in print form but lacks depth for actors, directors, etc.
Halliwell's Film and Video Guide by Leslie Halliwell. Harper. The best of American and British movies. Has films that others lack.
Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever. Visible Ink Press. The best overall guide. Has depth in all areas but only for those movies on video or DVD.
Variety Book of Movie Lists. Variety. Fun and amusing and who picked those catagories.
How-to
Screenwriters on Screenwriting by Joel Engel. The art of
screenwriting by those who know.
Making Movies by Sidney Lumet. Knopf, 1995. The best overall description of the pieces that go into making movies. Each job is weel delineated.
Working in Hollywood by Alexandra Brouwer and Thomas Lee Wright. Avon, 1990. Film jobs- what they are and how to do them. If you ever wondered what the 'best boy' does, it's here.
History
"We'll Always Have Paris" The Definitive Guide to Great Lines from the Movies by Robert and Gwen Nowlan. Quote after quote after quote or "" after "" after "".
Movie-made America: A Cultural History of American Movies by Robert Sklar. Vintage, 1994. The cultural history of American movies.
Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford, 1996. The history of cinema in one volume.
Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood and the Movie Industry by Gene Brown. Macmillan, 1995. It's all about Hollywood. What else would you expect?
The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz. Harper, 1998. Everything you needed to know and more.
Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca by Aljean Harmetz. Hyperion, 1992. This starts out as a the-making-of-a-movie book but it is so much more. The writing is excellecnt.
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Collection development and teacher
resources
Professional
article (w9e.pdf): Block, Lawrence."My Life
in Crime: A Personal Overview of American Mystery Fiction."
American Heritage, July/August, 1993, p. 37-49.
Professional articles:
An annotated bibliography of articles about
the nature and definition of culture and the literary
canon.
Amazon.com's
Award Winners page
Amazon keeps track of 58 literary awards, some dating back to the
turn of the century.
American Literature
This is a listserv for exchanging ideas, opinions and information
about American literature. To subscribe, in the first line of
the body of the message, type subscribe AMLIT-L [your
first name and last name].
National
Book Awards
National Book Award winners from 1989-1999 in fiction, non-fiction,
poetry and young people's categories.
National Council of Teachers of
English
The NCTE homepage provides teaching ideas, a useful list of
publications, professional development informaation and links to
other language arts sites.
SCORE Site for
Language Arts Curriculum
The San Diego County Office of Education hosts
this "Schools of California Online Resources for Educators" site.
Contains the Language Arts framework, resources for curriculum, model
units and activities. Especially useful are the
Cyberguides
for Literature, which are web-searching
activities centering around frequently taught works of
literature.
100
Best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Modern Library, a division of Random House published what its
editorial board considers the 100 best English-language novels of the
20th century. You can not only see the list on their website,
but also vote for your own favorites. Also in file w9e.html
Many children's literature classics are out of copyright, and are
among the books available in full-text on the Internet. This site
offers links to some of the more popular and interesting titles
that are available in HTML format. Part of the Children's
Literature WebGuide.
Bartleby Library - Steven H. van Leeuwen's project (1992-1996) at
Columbia University published literary, historical, and reference
works on the Internet. Works include Yeats, T. S. Eliot,
Dickinson, Hardy, Keats, Melville, Whitman and Wollstonecraft.
Poetry
The
Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets site includes
a listening booth where you can hear poems read by their authors,
a number of interesting historic and thematic exhibits, and a list
of featured poets. One notable part of the site is their
Harlem
Renaissance page, which features
brief biographies and poems by writers such as Sterling Brown,
Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne :
much material, including biography, works--many, like The
Scarlet Letter, with complete text-- and criticism.
Zora Neale
Hurston
Biographical information, bibliography, brief analysis of works,
plus several links to other sites with information about this
influential African American author.
This site includes photographs of Lewis, summaries of each of the
author's works, and a guest book where visitors can record
their reactions and memories of reading the Chronicles of
Narnia.
Biographical information, background and analyses of Morrison's
finest novel. This is another student effort from Michele
Maynard's classes at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mythology
Encyclopedia :
brief sketches in separate lists of the Greek gods and goddesses
and the Greek heroes and heroines.
A virtual field trip to Baltimore and Annapolis; Richmond and
Charlottesville; and other locales prominant in Poe's life and
works. Includes links to full-text works online and several
sites featuring Poe. Another Poe site focuses on the
Fall
of the House of Usher and was created by University of Texas
students. And don't miss Peter
Forrest's comprehensive site about all things Poe,
The
House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe.
Mary
Shelley: Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of
Nature.
This site does a fine job making connections between Mary
Shelley's novel and today.
John Steinbeck: The
National Steinbeck Center :
Directions to the Center in Salinas, contents of the Museum, news
of events, festival dates.
John
Steinbeck: The California Novels :
Summaries of 11 novels, including The Grapes of Wrath and
Of Mice and Men, plus numerous links to libraries,
geographical tours, photographs, festivals, and more.
John
Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath :
Shakespeare Links:
General
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet:
An annotated guide to Shakespeare resources
available on Internet.
Welcome to Shakespeare's
Stratford:
Another good overall site, this one from England.
Shakespeare¹s
Globe:
An online guide to the Globe Theatre and other related aspects of
Shakespearean drama.
The
Shakespeare Mystery:
PBS¹s Frontline show exploring the true identity of the
famous playwright.
The
Renaissance Faire:
Elizabethan Accents: A pronunciation guide to Elizabethan
English. Includes an Insults page.
Renaissance Faire
Costume Guide:
Fashion information about men and women of all classes in
Renaissance England.
Illinois
Shakespeare Festival Research Articles:
Scholarly information on a wide variety of topics related to
Shakespeare.
Welcome to Shakey¹s
Place:
A 3-D, interactive site featuring the Globe theater.
Macbeth
Scottish Culture
and History:
An introduction to all things Scottish.
The
Real Macbeth:
Encarta's entry on the real person.
Daily
Life in the Middle Ages:
What was it really like to live in the middle ages?
Scottish
weaponry:
Reproductions of authentic Scottish weapons.
Macbeth for
Dummies:
Summaries of the play, act by act, scene by scene.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and
Juliet
Website for the Leonardo DiCapprio/Claire
Danes film version
Fun Stuff
Dr.
Seuss Does Shakespeare:
What if the author of Cat in the Hat had written Hamlet?
Shakespearean
Insults:
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Professional article (w9d.pdf): Kaplan, Jeffrey. "Acting Up Across the Curriculum: Using Creative Dramatics to Explore Adolescent Literature," The ALAN Review, (1997?) - The fun and joy of having young people create and act.
Storytelling,
Drama, Creative Dramatics & Readers Theater for Children &
Young Adults
Links from the Inernet School Library Media Center's (ISLMC)
Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources; Site
Administrator: Inez Ramsey, James Madison University
English
Server Drama Collection
This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays,
criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It
publishes both classic and contemporary works, and offers a search
function. This page is part of the collection now known as the
EServer from Carnegie Mellon. It has been online for ten
years, administered by Geoffrey Sauer.
CultureFinder
Theater On and Off Broadway
Part of the Lycos network, offers summaries and schedules for
currently running productions both on and off Broadway.
CultureFinder also has a broadway
book shop which offers books (though they are referred to as
CD's) in four categories: Musical Theater Reference; General
Theater Reference; Musical Theater People: Biographies and
Studies; and Scripts and Books About Specific
Musicals.
Theatres and Production Companies for the San Francisco Bay Region
Culture
Clash Official Web Site
A Latino/Chicano comedy troupe that is celebrating their fifteenth
anniversary with a national tour and a series of special
performances. Founded in San Francisco's Mission District on Cinco
de Mayo in 1984, this three-person troupe of writers/performers -
Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas and Herbert Siguenza - presents
contemporary Latino/Chicano culture in America from its own
outrageous and unique perspective.
CultureFinder
San Jose Fine Arts Calendar
Schedule and ticket-purchasing page for all types of arts
performances in the south SF bay area.
Foghouse Productions
Homepage for the theater production company that produces
performances in the Eureka Theater, San Francisco.
Aurora
Theatre Homepage
Schedule of performances for the current season of the Aurora
Theatre in Berkeley CA. Includes summaries of the upcoming
plays and an easy to read calendar for each play's schedule.
Contra
Costa Civic Theatre
Homepage for the Contra Costa Civic Theatre in the East Bay
(Northern California). Includes information on their current
season and other drama-related links. CCCT also runs a
summer drama
program for ages 7-14 which sells out fast.
Novato
Community Players
Homepage for Novato Community theater, which is a family-oriented
group committed to providing outstanding community theatre to the
city of Novato, California that originated in 1919.
Pleasanton
Playhouse - Live Theatre for the Entire Family
Pleasanton Playhouse is an educational, non-profit volunteer
organization dedicated to providing affordable quality theatre,
theatrical training, a showcase for talent and a cultural
experience within the Greater Bay Area communities.
Santa
Clara Junior Theatre
SCJT was founded thirty years ago by Roberta Jones to give
children ages 8-18 the opportunity to develop poise,
self-confidence, responsibility and friendships through dramatic
arts. The theater and productions are sponsored by the City of
Santa Clara.
Peninsula
Youth Theatre Main Home Page
PYT presents children's theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area, and
offers classes to children ages 3.5 - 18 through their School of
Performing Arts.
Sunnyvale
Community Players
SCP offers a variety of productions geared to provide performing
arts opportunities to three distinct age ranges: Junior: 8 - 18
years, Young Adult: 13 - 26 years, and Adult: 18+ years. SCP offer
many opportunities to youth in Sunnyvale and surrounding
communities through their Junior Productions.
West
Valley Light Opera
Homepage for Los Gatos community theater.
A
Traveling Jewish Theatre
A Traveling Jewish Theatre's mission is to create and perform
original works of theatre, as an ensemble and in collaboration
with theatre artists from a variety of cultural and ethnic
backgrounds, that contribute to a generous vision of the human
condition. ATJT looks for connections where others see
separation.
Berkeley
Rep Home Page
A professional, non-profit resident theatre offering creative
programming, production of new works, and collaborations with
world-renowned theatre artists. BRT presents a seven-play
season, with plays on stages both in Berkeley and around the Bay,
and productions developed at BRT regularly travel to other
theatres across the country.
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